Hello Dear Alumni

Dear Alumni

Hello to All.

I’d like to thank the entire alumni body for electing me to represent the “Alumni Association of Gulmohur (AAG Trust)”. It is an honor to be elected as the next AAG President.

I am humbled that you have placed your faith and trust in me. This is a responsibility that i can't imagine myself handling better than our Founder President Mr. Abhijit Gope, still I will endeavor to represent you with utmost transparency and boldness.

I have been working for AAG since I was in school in 2010. I remember making the alumni database, learning to handle the school website, managing AAG activities. Then on 2^nd April 2013 I was appointed as the Vice President of AAG.  It has always been a proud moment working for AAG and my Alma Mater and I wish to continue this for the whole of my life.

The primary objective of AAG is to provide a common ground to the ex-students to unite and work towards a common goal of welfare and growth of Gulmohur School and its students. Future goal of AAG is to strive hard to work towards the betterment of the school by uniting every member of the Gulmohur family and reaching newer heights of success. I expect all the alumni to come forward and help AAG meet its objective.

I would like to announce the new organogram of Alumni Association of Gulmohur (AAG Trust). Though many of AAG body members are same, a new structure of Post has been defined for all of them. This would help to renew their working experience with AAG with more motivation and dedication and help AAG reaching new heights.

According to the new Organogram the working members are:

Event Management Head: Mr. Nikhil Kumar

Student Development Head: Mr. Abu Nasim Ashraf

Public Relations Head: Mr. Gaurav Prasad

Deputy PR: Ms. Gazala Anjum

The General Operations Team includes Mr. Navin Dutta, Mr. Tapajyoti Guha and Ms. Neha Sakuja.

[http://www.gulmohurschool.com/index.php/alumni/alumni-body]

We are in the process of recruitment of efficient members for rest of the posts. I encourage all the Alumni to come forward and work/contribute for AAG.

Once again I would like to thank all the Alumni and the AAG Core Team for considering me worthy enough for this position.

Regards,

Rahul Kumar

President, AAG Trust

New President announcement

From the desk of Former President...

Abhijit Gope
Founder/ Former President, AAG Trust

Dear Alumni,

Greeting to all...

As usual, it’s always amazing to write to you all about the achievements of AAG; to inform all the alumni & specially the donors as how their contribution has helped in growth of school, education, sports & society at large. I am attaching the 'Flashback Newsletter' with this mail for your reviews.

Today, I am glad to announce that AAG has successfully completed 5yrs. On this important year, I feel that now the 'Baton' should be passed to a Young, efficient Alumni who can make AAG reach new heights. So I announce Rahul Kumar as the New PRESIDENT OF AAG TRUST. I am very enthusiastic of this transition process & on his capabilities to run the organisation in a very efficient way.

Rahul Kumar
 New President, AAG Trust

Herewith I will be moving to the role of an ADVISOR OF AAG. I will be always available to help &guide Rahul Kumar when needed.

Rahul Kumar will soon be announcing his Team. &I myself am very eager to hear about his new team members.

Once again, my warm wishes to Rahul in his new role. &A thanks to all ALUMNI, Principal, Prakash sir in supporting AAG grow bigger...

Regards,

Former/Founder President

Abhijit Gope

(New role- Advisor)

AAG Trust

(feel free to write to us at: aag_advisors@yahoogroups.com)

Injustice has to end.. & fast !

We can make a difference.. & we should... Because injustice has to end for the betterment of society....
I have written this article with no intention of hurting anyone.. but to make everyone realise that we need to do something before its too late...  Follow the below mentioned link to read the whole article.Hope you all agree with me...

My Paradise: Injustice has to end.. & fast !: 

Step out !

Visiting places.. Exploring the unknown.. 

Meeting new people ..Knowing their culture..

Appreciating the magic of nature & Creations of Human..

and finally capturing these moments & preserving them for lifetime... 

Nothing can be better than this whole process of LEARNING and MAKING MEMORIES !!

Traveling, photography and editing has become a passion for me. Sharing with you three of my favorite clicks. To get the magnified view just click on the pic.

 If you wish to see few more clicks of mine follow the below mentioned link .. Hope you like them: 

                                                 www.myclick-ab.blogspot.com

Off late I have realized the world around has several aspects that are unexplored..So don't just sit idle..Step out & explore.. U never know what you will find with each curve of the road..and believe me  the happiness that you will get in the process will surely be unparallelled !!!

Gulmohur School Website

The web portal of Gulmohur School was donated by Alumni Association of Gulmohur (AAG) on 26th October 2010.

School had the formal

launching of the website. On this occasion AAG members and School Managing committee were invited. This is a full fledged website containing all details about the school as well as the Alumni. Visit the website at: http://www.gulmohurschool.com/ or http://www.gulmohurschool.org/

COMPETITION: GOOD OR BAD??

Competition is a part of life. When you are young and still studying in school, you would compete with your classmates for better grades, when you get older and go to work, you would compete with your colleagues so as to please the boss more with your work and get a promotion to a higher position with better salary. Companies compete with each other to get more customers and slowly expand their business. Countries compete with each other for a better economy. Even animals and plants compete with each other. The plants compete with each other to as to get more water, sunlight and nutrients, while the animals in the wild challenge each other for survival and mating. So, competition is part of everyday life, but is it really a good thing?

The cause of having competition between people is that people like to prove to themselves or other people that they are actually better than the rest. People compete with each other so as to win, and winning brings benefits to the victor. Some people compete to make their views heard, like when in political elections. The representatives debate with each other and try their best to convince the public to vote for them.

People not only compete with others but with themselves too. Some people do not concentrate on beating their peers but instead, they concentrate on competing with themselves. They keep trying to do better than they did previously, therefore these people are not under as much stress as the people who compete with the society. People who compete with themselves get to set their own goals and learn or work at their own pace, and as such there is not so much strain.

Competition causes good stress.

The issue can be viewed from another perspective. The issue is not whether competition is all good or all bad, but rather is how we can eliminate bad competition and emphasize good competition.

Good competition creates a festival atmosphere, with all the attending traditions, rituals, and celebrations. Good competition creates a forum within which children and youth can test themselves against accepted standards of excellence.

Good competition involves rivalry, but never the kind of rivalry in which one side can win only to the extent that the other side loses. Good competition also means striving within the rules and traditions to do the best you can and then, when the competition is over, understanding that the winning or losing have little meaning outside the competition itself.

Bad competition, on the other hand, should be eliminated. Using the rules to gain an advantage, assuming that the only way to win is to have the best score, disregarding the traditions and rituals of the activity, and letting the outcomes affect you after the competition is over are all indications of inappropriate competition.

-----------------received from- Ipsita Mahato, Batch ISC- 2005

Confluence 2011: Grand Alumni Reunion

A day to be remembered - 25th December 2011. Gulmohur School saw all its students back to the ground where they spent their childhood. From the first batch of 1979 till the latest 2011, each was represented. CONFLUENCE 2011 was a success!!!

On 25th December 2011 The Alumni Association of Gulmohur (A.A.G.) presented the first grand Reunion of ex-students of Gulmohur. ‘CONFLUENCE’- get together of all GHS Alumni from around the world. A one-day affair, this reunion took back everyone to the blissful growing years in school. The Staff and Faculty of Gulmohur High School and Alumni Association of Gulmohur (AAG) cordially invited all ex-students to the first Grand Alumni Meet in the school premises spanning Alumni from across the globe (USA, Europe, Middle East and different parts of India) and from as far back as 1979 to as recent as 2010 to be a part of an experience of a lifetime.

Those were the best days of my life. This song kept playing in my head throughout the programme on the 25th and if you were there probably you were singing it too or purani jeans aur guitar or those were the days my friend etc.

What a wonderful afternoon. The attendance was healthy. We had teachers - current and ex from as far back as the inception of the school, alumni from 1980 and current students from the senior classes. It's hard to say what was the high point meeting with the teachers or meeting with the batchmates but what I can say for sure is it was a very emotional afternoon.

We started off with the welcome address and the lamp lighting ceremony. This was followed by a cultural programme where the students of the school performed. This was followed with introduction of alumni and in the interest of time alumni handed over the memento to the teachers who were felicitated for their contributions to Gulmohur School . This was the best part of the evening as both alumni and teachers remembered incidents of yesteryears very vividly as if it happened yesterday. This was followed by a hilarious performance by the Gulmohur school band which was followed by an informal meeting of ex-

faculty, ex-students and alumni followed by

dinner.

All this would not have been possible without and I thank them in no particular order, the school staff, the ex-teachers and the alumni.

Below is the speech of Mr. T S Prakash and Mr. Abhijit Gope on the Confluence 2011.

Speech of Mr. T S Prakash (Senior Coordinator, Gulmohur School)

Good evening respected Ex Principal, Ex Faculty members, Principal Mrs Sunita Sinha, Faculty members.

On behalf of AAG I would like to personally name Mrs Santoshi Toppo, Mrs Manjula Chatterjee, Mrs Nishi Suri, Mr Samir Hore, Mrs Sanghamitra Hore, Mr Manash Banerjee, Mrs Sapna Chakraborty, Mrs Krishna Sharma, Mrs Nandita Sinha, Mrs Nina Basu, Mrs Punita Chouhan, Mr Dhananjay Das, Mr Dinesh C Srivastava, Mrs Neeru Dua, Mrs Meera Paul and Mr Raju Nair. We are extremely honoured to have you amongst us.

I would also like to thank Mrs M Datar, Mrs Vijaya Vasudevan, Mrs Shobha Nair Pandit, Mrs Lalita Srinivasan who although not physically present but conveyed their wishes.

The AAG team is thankful to Principal Mrs Sunita Sinha for supporting us.

The people who made this happen are Abhijit Gope, the President of AAG, Kamran Ahmed, the Vice President, Rahul Ojha, the treasurer, Pradip Agarwal, the HR head, Ashok Nayak And Tanmay Bhadra, the Advisors to AAG, dear alumni who have come from far and near and present council members of the school.

Gulmohur School being the oldest in the colony has always been evolving over the years. A gathering of this order is first of its kind in Jamshedpur. A lot of credit goes to Abhijit Gope of ISC 2005 for his untiring effort, Sumanto Ghosh of the 1984 ICSE batch, the 1986 alumni Ashok Nayak, Tanmay Bhadra and others, the other alumni who pitched in with their valuable contribution. In the period 1996-98 Debdulal Mohanty of ICSE 1994 had developed and hosted the first school website. In the period 1999 to 2005 Arup Shome had taken first framed the organization structure to get the Alumni body registered and open a bank account. The alumni body which used to fund the education for poor children was named GULSHAN and was subsequently merged with AAG. Many more students have given their time and energy to keep this organization going like Kingshuk Bhadra, Suraj, etc. Sumanto Ghosh of the ICSE 1984 batch purchased both the domain names www.gulmohurschool.com and www.gulmohurschool.org. Next, the 1986 ICSE batch took the initiative to expand the features of the website in a systematic manner along with the help of Sumanto Ghosh, Navin Dutta, Abhijit Ghosh and transferred the ownership to the school in October 2010. The AAG members are at present funding for the domain.

Kamaljeet Singh Vilkhoo of the 1982 ICSE batch had donated a sum of Rs 50,000/- in 2010 to set up the Public Address system that we have in our school. Recently Navin Dutta of ISC 2003 batch in Delhi has been giving valuable inputs and has been instrumental along with Nishant Prasad, in setting up the Learning Management System (LMS) for the school.

Unfortunately he and many others were unable to attend this meet due to delay in flights and train. Many have made it overcoming all hurdles. We are extremely touched by your commitment. We at Gulmohur are trying to be the best school and your inputs in terms of adding value to the present and future students shall go a long way in achieving this target. We are extremely proud of every person who is or have been a part of the Gulmohur family. It is your zeal that will take our school forward.

The AAG team wishes to thank the students of class IV for putting up such a wonderful dance, School Band, School Choir, Sudesh Tent & Decorators, Sonu DJ, Mr Sanjay for Light, Mr Biman for catering, Raja Photo gallery, Ashok, Tanmoy, Kamran and team for the mementos, brochures & badges and also the school support staff. The AAG team requests you to kindly overlook any shortcomings in our hospitality.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.

Speech of Mr. Abhijit Gope (President, AAG)

Good evening and merry Christmas to All,

On behalf of Alumni Association of Gulmohur or AAG, I welcome you all to CONFLUENCE, 2011 the first Grand Alumni Meet. The journey has been long and I will share with you all, a part of it from my own remembering experience. It was June 2008; AAG was conceptualized by a group of alumni. With time the group became large enough to provide a common platform for more than 600 alumni.

1) Over these few years we have held career counseling and talk shows for our dear students...

2) In year 2010 AAG partnered with school in providing it online presence and also implemented learning management system. I am pleased to inform you that the first round of online exams was conducted in November 2011 for present class 8 students through learning management system.

3) We also got AAG registered as a Charitable trust with Govt. of India.

4) In the 3 years of its existence, the AAG's assets have grown from a mere 5000rs in 2008 to 134000rs in 2011.

5) Today YOUR AAG has a formalized structure with different wings like care-takers wing, website team and the HR team.

We are working on a long TO-DO list of tasks which we are keen to undertake in the coming years. And here we require your co-operation for accomplishing it.

Finally a special thanks to the core group who helped AAG reach new heights- to Mr. Ashok Nayak, Tanmoy Bhadra, Pradip Agrawal, Navin Dutta, T.S Prakash, Nishant Prasad, Rahul Ojha, Rahul Kumar and Sumanto Ghosh. Also to AAG vice- president Kamran Ahmad for all his dedicated support...

And a special thanks to volunteers who made this Meet a reality... to Mr Nikhil Kumar, Sushil Kumar and team...

Finally I congratulate all our fellow Alumni and teachers who are present here and whose well-wishes are with us and declare the First GRAND ALUMNI MEET OPEN. I am sure this evening will add back to your school memories of blackboard and chalks, of untied shoe laces of last benchers, of corridors and of the words that still ring at our hearts “Gulmohur Gulmohur Forever….”

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CONFLUENCE 2011

CONFLUENCE 2011 - Grand Alumni Reunion

The 1st Gala event dedicated to Alumni of Gulmohur High School, planned to be celebrated on 25th Dec.

Registration can be done online. Pls visit school website www.gulmohurschool.com

Event starts from 2:00pm
Dinner from 7:00pm

An opportunity to meet Alumni from 1979 to 2010

An opportunity to meet Ex Principals, Ex Faculties.

Keep visiting the site: http://www.gulmohurschool.com/index.php/alumni/grand-aag-reunion for latest information about Confluence 2011

"THE GULMOHUR"

Shooting for my next documentary, “ The Gulmohur”, I have relived my school days.. Getting up early in the morning, dressing up for going to school early in the morning in time, attending assembly, chanting prayers, singing school songs and many more. Believe me it was a marvelous experience. Eagerly waiting for this one..

It was really astonishing and overwhelming  to find the old primary section teachers recognising us WITH OUR NAMES !! :) I got more respect and appreciation than my school days..

For the first time in my life, I got a chance to hold our school flag. Feels very proud.

A special thanks to our principal mam, Sunita Sinha.

My Team:

Sandip Sahu (ISC-2010)

Md.Shahbaz (ISC-2010)
Anwesha Keshav (ISC-2013)
Rakesh Kumar (ISC-2010)

It was so nostalgic for us to shoot in our school. I wished this shooting would have never come to an end…….

The Gulmohur (ENTIRE VIDEO)

-@jitabh ]3ose

My first year in the college - An article concerning to all….

I Left my home and my hometown with tears in my eyes, waving my hand and watching my mother going apart from me. It was an unexpressive moment for me, there was a curiosity of an independent life ahead along with a deep sorrow within my heart of departing from EVERYONE.

I reached Delhi on 1^st of August last year. A new city and a new life to adjust into. Everything was huge, buildings, people, status. Felt a bit outdated and backward. Two of my lifetime wishes came true by time, a personal room and of course a personal computer.

It was 16^th of August when my uncle dropped me to the college and showed the path. With semi-courage in my nerves went to the classroom. Unknown faces, people, and unwanted attitude.. I was in super formal as instructed made me feel more pathetic. Learning the lifestyle and state of fashion I was deeply affected and literally felt like a gawar.

With a basic intro of our selves classes began..  New faculties and our seniors were the best one can dream of..Time passed by, I got along with all including faculties and started opening up with them.. My inner soul pumped up and rose up to where it was in the school days. Playing pranks, asking stupid questions, joking, laughing had become my life..

Enjoyed in the canteen with friends and gossips in the lectures.  Sitting hours on facebook, chatting with old friends had become a hobby.. Visiting new places was very memorable part. Wrote articles, completed assignments,  made cartoons and invented the Bose Documentaries..

I found shadow of my parents in my faculties  and college hours became my happiest hours of the day.. This was the most special year of my life.. Evolved from nil to where I stand now.. With all ups and downs, appreciations and disheartening.. Learned a lot, lived each moment like never before.

Cried and missed my mom quite often in loneliness. A year passed by, and it all seems like yesterday was 1^st of August.

( The most closest and dearest article of mine )

-@jitabh]3ose

College-A Step Towards Reality

I always use to think that succeeding in college is about going to class, studying, and working hard.  But what you might not realize is that you can do all of these things and still not succeed..

For example, in high school lots of decisions are made for you—what classes you take, when you take them, what books to buy, how many pages to read each night, and so on.

Not so in college.  One have to make a lot of decisions on his own.  How will you schedule your time?  How late will you stay up?  How much partying will you do?  How many classes will you cut?  In college you won’t be reminded about exams and due dates.  Your teachers and parents won’t be around to make sure you do the “right things.”

Now, this new freedom might sound great; and it is, sort of.  But, let’s say for example, that you spend a lot of time staying up late, hanging with friends.  You could run out of time the night before a paper is due.  You could be tired all of the time, fall asleep in class, and maybe get sick because you did not get enough sleep.  Spending hours on facebook will be a nominal thing for you….

You could lose points for not attending class, even for showing up late, or for forgetting to hand in a paper.  The reality is that the decisions you make can cost you and your parents a lot of wasted, time, effort, and money…not to mention your happiness.

You also have to learn how to work with professors and adapt to the many differences you will find in a college classroom.

So college means that you have to make a lot of your own decisions, and, in most colleges, you will be making these decisions with little guidance or support.   You don’t need someone to nag you or lecture you about what you should or shouldn’t do.  What you need is someone you can talk to.. Someone who will not judge you and will always be there for you everytime….

-@jitabh ]3ose

Student's Life

Student life is the best time of life. Students of today are the citizens of tomorrow. A man’s career is made or marred in this period. It is the period when one’s character is molded. A student should Aim at being educated and being educated means becoming a complete man.

In student life diligence is of supreme value. A diligent man can achieve much. In student life one must learn to be obedient, Discipline is imposed on the student from outside at the school stage. But a student should understand from within the necessity of obedience and discipline in life. He should not forget that student life is to be devoted primarily to the pursuit of knowledge. But a student should not be a bookworm. There should be a harmonious development of body and mind. Therefore, a student should always participate in games and sports. It is not a waste of time to spend an hour or so in the playground. At home he must respect his elders and abide by the rules of his family. At school or college he must obey and respect his teachers. He should be careful about choosing his friends and companions. He should make friends with those who are honest, disciplined and diligent.

A student should also look beyond himself. He should not be a self-centered and selfish fellow. In student life one should devote some time to social service. He should try to educate his illiterate neighbors. He must teach the fundamental laws of health and hygiene. An ideal student must master all such virtues and make himself a useful citizen of his motherland and his country as well.
-@jitabh ]3ose

J.J.IRANI Awards

One the proudest moment for me and for every Gulmohurian…. Our Gulmohur High School has won two “J.J.IRANI Awards” this year. Gulmohur High School has crossed the 400+ band and was the proud recipient of three awards. The TATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES (TQMS) conducted its awards ceremony on 25^thof Feb. 2011. The Chief guest for the occasion was the Ex-President of  India, honorable “Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam”.  The first award was for EDUCATIONAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT  (EQUIP) and the second award was for the BEST PRACTICE AWARD. This award was for the EFFECTIVE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE RESULTING IN IMPROVED LEARNING.I was very happy to hear this news and wished to be present on this auspicious occasion..

Proud to be a GULMOHURIAN!!

-@jitabh ]3ose

WHY????

Why  this world is refered as cruel and selfish, come to Gulmohur where God still exsists!!!!

Why didn’t I missed my mom here????

Why didn’t I want those classes to ever end????

Why I just wanted to keep on listening those devine voices????

Why I had to leave Gulmohur one day and go from this heaven????

Why I had to leave my friends and was left with only tears????

Why cant we pause the time for ever to live like an immortal soul????

Why I don’t want to depart from Gulmohur????

Why????
-@jitabh ]3ose

The New School Web Portal

[posted in the school magazine - Signature ]

The new school web portal was launched October 26th of 2010, a culmination of about 10 months worth of joint collaboration between the school management team and the AAG core team. The brain child for this initiative came from a very active 1986 alumni batch. The launching of the web portal was amongst several of the ideas which were discussed in the batch’s forum and the idea presented formally to the school management team by AAG who subsequently blessed the initiative. What followed after that was a series of meetings, hundreds of emails, lot of running around to make things happen culminating in the first cut of gulmohurschool.org. Today the site stands on a solid infrastructure and the goal over time is to grow it as the school grows…. onwards forever onwards. The portal today is built on moodle, a learning management system (LMS) and joomla, a content management system (CMS). Other than that the portal has links to social media sites like face book, Picasa, orkut and BlogSpot.

The first cut was an interesting journey and the journey was not all smooth, hundreds of hours that both AAG and the school management spent included amongst other things the challenges around getting funding for the initiative, reaching out to GHS Alumni, talking to Bank officials, registering AAG as a not for profit, buying a hosting server, buying domain name, design and developmental work on the site, mail accounts, getting content, photographs from the school and alumni, writing up content.

So what is the vision that went behind the school portal? The internet has pretty much changed our lives in the last 10-15 years and is continuing to change our lives. What the technology has done is basically made our life easier by making information available, communication easier, encouraging collaboration etc. Along the same theme the vision for the school portal is to achieve more or less the same goals. Make information available to students, prospective students, parents, teachers and alums – some of this is already achieved – today you can go to the portal and learn about the school, criteria for admission, activities at the school, faculty names, school toppers, best sportsperson, provide feedback, testimonials etc .

The moodle is another piece that can be a powerful tool for teaching as it is basically an LMS so teachers can teach online courses both to supplement face to face courses or purely online so students can take part irrespective of their location. Online discussions, quizzes, tests in addition can supplement student education.
Some of the other ideas which are being discussed pending approval is online career counseling and mentoring of students, content about school clubs, club activities and collaboration opportunities there, taking the school magazine online which could be a more cost effective model than the current model, allow for online collaboration between parents and teachers to monitor student progress, sms facility to collaborate with parents and school newsletter.

By now I am sure you are as excited about the portal as much as we were building it. I encourage you to visit and tell your friends to visit it too. We also would encourage you to provide your feedback.

Thank you.

Tanmoy Bhadra
Alumni 1986 Batch
(On behalf of the AAG team)

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3rd Alumni Reunion Day (2010) ...

We had our 3rd Alumni Reunion on 28th Dec 2010. The programme started at 11am. We had a site visit where the Alumni were shown all new developments that were taking place in school premises. The formal meeting started at 12am. Prakash sir said a few words greeting the Alumni. Followed by My speech (Abhijit Gope) and then our Principal Maam (Mrs. Sunita Sinha). Then all Alumni present there introduced themselves.

 After it we had a cake cutting ceremony, followed by refreshment.

On this occasion we also donated a Shield for the best All rounder of school which will be named as “AAG HONOUR ". There were some 30 people present, which included Alumni, Principal& few teachers.

It was a nice two hours event.

Next Year we will have a Grand Alumni Reunion and I hope that You all will be present there. And as the name suggest, it will surely be a big Gala event....

Below is my speech on the 3rd Reunion day, followed by Mr. Tanmoy Bhadra's speech (ICSE- 1986). He couldn't attend the meet as he was in USA. So we had a message from him which was read out on this reunion. 

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My Speech...

Good morning Everyone …

It’s glad to see you all on the 3rd Alumni Reunion Day. I receive congratulations and well-wishes from Fellow Alumni for the initiative taken. But, let me tell you all that it’s not my individual effort but the journey has been a team effort of a group of Alumni.

And the little work that has been done by me has not been from any inherent power that resides in me, but from the cheer, goodwill and blessings of my parents, teachers and fellow alumni.

  On this occasion, I would like to thank our school principal Mrs. Sunita Sinha for all the support she happily provided us. To our beloved Prakash Sir, without whose dedicated effort we couldn't grow to such level. To Mr. Kamran Ahmad& Mr. Nishant Prasad who helped me at each and every step in transforming the vision to reality.

  A special thanks to AAG website team. Mr. Ashok Nayak, Mr. Tanmoy Bhadra and Mr. Navin Dutta. Though I call it AAG website team, but they have continuously supported at every step and beyond the website development work. I would emphasize their work while I tell about our accomplishment of this year.

  Mr. Debjit Biswas and Mr. Saurabh Sharda also deserve special thanks for their help. Also to all AAG members who have helped in taking the AAG initiative further, by silently helping us.

  2010 has been a wonderful year for AAG. "Good times bring good people". We met good people, done good work and got good results... Rather great results.

  This year we got ourselves registered us as a Charitable Trust with Government of India. All the applause goes to Mr. Debjit Biswas (ICSE- 1986). He has been the person behind the whole process. He is presently a civil and criminal lawyer.

  We also have applied for tax waiver- which means that people donating AAG will get tax rebate as according to India Law. Behind this is Mr. Saurabh Sharda (a chartered accountant and Gulmohur Alumnus ISC- 2002). We have got clean chit from Deputy Commissioner and now we are headed towards the final stage as the documents are now with commissioner.

  Another great milestone that AAG achieved is the launch of school website. It’s been a rigorous effort of AAG website team. A complete dedicated effort of a whole year. I was checking my "Gulmohur" folder in my mail. And you won’t believe, as more than 1400 mails have already been exchanged between us in this year for website development.

  Mr. Ashok Nayak (ICSE- 1986) has been one of the important people who helped in crystallizing the dream. He is presently Head- Business Development, Middle East& South Africa, Elster- oil& gas division, Dubai. He will be joining us tomorrow morning all the way from Dubai.

  Mr. Tanmoy Bhadra (ICSE- 1986) has been the website project manager. He is presently Technical Project Manager for enterprise web based and infrastructure projects for fortune 500 clients in USA.

  Another important Alumnus who has been behind the website project is Mr. Navin Dutta (ISC- 2001). He is an entrepreneur- the founder of Edvanta Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He is between us today from all the way from Delhi. [Please have an applause for him]. He has done all the work from website creation to database management. And he will deal with Learning Management System, which will give our school website& school, an edge among all schools in Jamshedpur. He will deal with his presentation on it tomorrow morning.

Thanks to Prakash and Nishant Sir too. If they would have not supported from school side then this project would never have been accomplished. They are the person behind the whole of school content for website. Being core Gulmohurian at heart, they have worked, in and after, school working hours to accomplish this project. And now their role grows further, with the preparation and launch of Phase II- the learning management system.

  This year we also made our presence on Facebook, Picassa and bloggers.com. Overall, this year has been a great time for us.

[For specific details on Gulmohur School website features, please visit "School Website Launched " post on gulmohurschool.blogspot.com.]

  I would like to also add some points on improvement:

First- In year 2008, we had a dream to make the surrounding of Gulmohur School beautiful. The planning was to plant samplings at a stretch on the opposite side of the school main gate. We got permission from Telco authorities and planted 49trees. But due to some unexpected reasons, things couldn't materialize. If things would have been in our favour, you could see some beautiful pink flowers blossom this winter. A real delight to watch during this year reunion day. Still, we are not disheartened and would request principal maam to help and provide her extended support.

Second- We donated Water Filters to school in the year 2008 on request of some senior teachers. But still, it has been not installed in the manner as it was decided. We are ready to help with any effort (material or immaterial), but at the same time we require support from school authorities. We would glad to reinstall it properly in a month's time with school cooperation.

  There are many arenas where we would like to help our alma-mater. We will discuss things in details tomorrow morning from 10:30am. I invite all volunteers for tomorrow's meeting.

There is also a surprise to school on occasion of the 3rd Reunion.

  One of my batchmate (Mr. Rahul Ojha) has donated a shield to be given to the best all-rounder of the school. To tell about Rahul Ojha- he was the 2nd Topper of our batch including science, commerce and arts stream. He even scored 98% in pure mathematics even though he was from commerce stream.

I would like to handover the shield to our Principal….

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Thanks maam. Now I would like our Principal Maam to say few words on today's occasion.

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Mr. Tanmoy Bhadra's Speech...

My Dear Fellow Alums, Faculty and Principal

I have asked Abhijit to read this note as I will not be able to join you on this alumni day. This alumni day is more special for me as this is the first one since the launch of the school website portal earlier this year. I was actively involved along with Abhijit and a few others in this initiative.

  When I look back at the school where I spent a significant portion of my formative years I have a lot of good memories. My association with Gulmohur School goes back to when the primary section of the school was called Shishu Vidyalaya and had classes up to grade 3. I started in Lower KG and when in grade 3 Gulmohur school would merge with Shishu Vidyalaya and Shishu Vidyalaya will become Gulmohur Primary School. This was in 1979. I graduated from Gulmohur High School in 1986 and 24 years later remember the school very fondly.
  When I think back about the teachers what I remember is the love, caring and selfless sacrifices. Some of the teachers have since retired, moved on to do different things and some have passed away but their legacy remain in my heart and guide me like a beacon of light.
  Gulmohur High School will mean different things to different people but if you are here today I am pretty sure your association has been as pleasant as mine. And if you are alumni I hope you can commit yourself in giving back to the school as it has given to you with all its heart. I hope with our collective efforts we can make Gulmohur High School the best school in town. Thank you.

Tanmoy Bhadra (ICSE Batch of 1986)

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Alumni Reunion Day (2010)

The AAG board members cordially invites you on behalf of Gulmohur High School principal and executive members to celebrate Alumni Day on  Dec 28th 2010. Venue - Gulmohur high school, Telco Colony, Jamshedpur  Time - 11 am - 1 pm Activities - Speech by Principal, faculty and AAG President, Alums, Tour of School, Snacks and Refreshments. Also join us and the Gulmohur High School executive members to share ideas and volunteer your services to the alma mater on  Dec 29th 2010. Venue - Gulmohur high school, Telco Colony, Jamshedpur  Time - 10:30 am - 2:30 pm Activities - Presentation by Navin, Ashok, open discussions.

Annual Sports Day (2010)

The morning of 11th Dec was a different one. It was the first time I was going to visit our school Annual Athletic meet (better knwn as Annual Sports Day among Gulmohurians). Five years has passed since I completed my 12th but still I found that the eagerness to attend the event was more now, than it was when I was in school. After all its another event where I was getting the opportunity to rejuvenate my old sweet memories...

It was 38th Annual Athletic meet of school. Held at Telco stadium on a fine,sunny Saturday morning from 9am onwards. The meet was attended by Principal, teachers, Guest of honour, all the students and their parents.

As I was sitting in audience, the front view was spectacular-  students colourfully dressed to perform various activities. At far off was the four house students sitting in their respective house colour dresses (blue, yellow, green, red). I felt that everythng was same as we had in our days.

Sad to say that I went late so couldnt see the Marchpast. It was followed by oath taking ceremony and then the various activities. First the Primary section performed their colourful dances and activities.And then the performances of higher section students.. 

I really liked the Tiger dance..still smiling when i writing this..

It was followed by 100 m, 200 m & 400 m relay by senior students.

To me the whole event was wonderfully organised. The pain that our teachers &students took in preparing for it (specially PT teachers) could be well judged by the gracefulness of the activities and the smooth functioning of the event.

There was also events for the parents, teachers and lets not forget we Alumni..:-) We had a speed walking competion. Thanks to school to still treat us as a branch of the Old Big Gulmohur tree.

The Guest of Honour was Mr. Mr. Pradeep Srivastava (MD. ISWP)

Bhagat House bagged the winners prize followed by Raman House as 1st Runners up & Tata House as 2nd Runners up. Bhagat House also took the march past shield.

As all might know that AAG also encourage sports through a rotation shield for the Best Athlete male&female.These shields were bagged by:

Male - Satish Sai & Ashok Mahato

Female - Somya Suman & Amrit Kaur 

In the Alumni Event the prizes were as follows-

1st - Nishant

2nd- Avanish

3rd- Abhijit Gope..yupiee..even I got a prize :-) ..

People/Alumni who missed the Athletic Meet made a mistake by not attending it. Really worth watching.. May be next year we expect more Alumni to attend it..

Also well wishes for Christmas and the New Year..May with new year, new opportunities come to you &brings you happiness for the good works that you perform.. Enjoy life..